US links Pakistan's ISI to journalist torture and murder

news.yahoo.com...

US officials believe Pakistan's spy agency was behind the killing of a Pakistani journalist who reported that Islamist militants had infiltrated the military, the New York Times reported.

The newspaper quoted two senior officials as saying that intelligence showed that senior members of Pakistan's powerful Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency ordered the killing of Saleem Shahzad, 40, to muzzle criticism.

It quoted another senior official as saying: "Every indication is that this was a deliberate, targeted killing that was most likely meant to send shock waves through Pakistan?s journalist community and civil society."

The ISI did this? Who would of thought? Of course, the ISI denies this.

Heres a quick background on the journalist.

The reporter, who worked for an Italian news agency and a Hong Kong-registered news site, went missing en route to a television talk show and his body was found last week south of the capital, bearing marks of torture.

Shahzad disappeared two days after writing an investigative report in Asia Times Online saying Al-Qaeda carried out a recent attack on a naval air base to avenge the arrest of naval officials held on suspicion of Al-Qaeda links

Tortured and murdered by the ISI. And we still consider them a friend? Well, atleast the government considers them somewhat "friends" still.

reply to post by buni11687


Well, it seams like the US support torture and murder so whats the problem?

Are you going to bash ISI for something the Americans are doing them selves?

reply to post by spy66

Are you going to bash ISI for something the Americans are doing them selves?

Yes, and I bash the US government for the same thing. It dosent matter what country does the torture, it is still wrong, atleast in my opinion